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Part I: Glory Days -- 1. 23 Wall Street -- 2. A Private Club -- 3. Preston in Charge -- 4. Market Shocks -- 5. Crisis Erupts -- 6. Time to Say Goodbye -- Part II: Formulating the Plan -- 7. Origins of Morgan’s Transformation -- 8. Buy or Build? -- 9. Industry Shakeup -- 10. Should Morgan...
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This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who...
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This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from the nineteenth century to … today. It concentrates on American and British business history, delving into issues such as slavery, industrialization …
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Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. From War Financier to Bankers’ Bank -- Chapter 3. Central Banks under the Gold Standard -- Chapter 4. The Federal Reserve: A Unique Institution -- Chapter 5. From War to War: 1914-1939 -- Chapter 6. Post-war Progress: 1946-1960 -- Chapter 7. The 1960s:...
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book examines US economic history to demonstrate how the applications of laws are uncertain, affected by changing political …
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of interest to academics working on the history of finance, banking and currency in the British Isles and North America …
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-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences …
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This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking at episodes in American economic history from a … American history, from the Rhode Island’s 1788 Referendum on the U.S. Constitution and the political influence of women’s clubs … researchers and students interested in economics, history, political science, economic history, public choice, and political …
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Chapter 1. General Introduction: Why Should We Study the History of Economic Theory? -- Chapter 2. Introduction …This book, set out over three volumes, provides a comprehensive history of economic thought in the 20th century with …-consciously conceived of themselves as 'economists' in the modern academic sense of the term. It is a history of how, when and where the …
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In diesem Buch wird die technische Pionierleistung des Wirtschaftstheoretikers Friedrich List (1789-1846), die er für den Ausbau der Eisenbahn in den USA vollbracht hat, eindrucksvoll dargestellt. Mit dem Bau der Little Schuylkill-Eisenbahn in Pennsylvania förderte List die Infrastruktur des...
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